The Untouchables (TV Series) The Pea (1962) User Reviews

A small-time shmoe who THINKS he is somebody...

[planktonrules · 23 March 2016]

Herbie Catcher (Frank Gorshin) is a small-timer...a nobody who has visions of being someone. First, he tries to sell Ness a lot of useless information because he hopes this will get him some respect...but his information is useless. Second, he actually witnesses an accident and helps his boss (Albert Paulsen) out with the police...in order to be somebody. So he decides to do something really crazy...to use blackmail and a little book to get his boss to make him a REALLY big man. And even after his boss meets an untimely end, he leverages the information in this book to keep him a very big man. But chances are he's out of his league and getting in deeper with his mobster boss is gonna crush him sooner or later.

This is a very good and unusual episode of the series. I particularly liked the ending...it really brought everything together perfectly! Well worth seeing and Gorshin was quite nice as Herbie.

Chiseler

[bkoganbing · 4/10 · 8 January 2014]

A nice performance by Frank Gorshin as a small time chiseler and fink is wasted in this Untouchables episode. In real life I can't see Eliot Ness bothering with Gorshin let alone giving up a Depression Era $20.00 bill to him just for bringing him stale intelligence.

But a time when Gorshin does get a hold of something valuable, it's the time he should have gotten to Robert Stack yesterday. After witnessing a murder of a gangster's moll at a nightclub where he's a busboy, Gorshin steals an account book that the moll had been threatening Albert Paulsen with.

Now Gorshin decides to use it for leverage himself. What the result is of this enterprise is for you to see the story. But straight arrow Eliot Ness should never be dealing with this guy. He's dismissed other chiselers for a lot less.